Skull & Bones

[WileEcoyote]

Just did a search background on one of my former relatives. Will refer to him only as Mr. "X". Scary stuff.

Won't mention names here as he was once married to a very good person, a female cousin of mine. She doesn't deserve any negative criticism. Can't be held responsible for whom she chose for a mate decades ago. Not today anyway.

This guy probably had to be from Skull & Bones. And even if he wasn't a member in earnest it's almost for sure that he was well associated with their dirty business. The way a lot of bikers will party with the Hells Angels types without ever becoming fully pledged members.

They take the benefits and receive orders but without "officially" representing them directly.

So I've been checking out my former in law on the internet lately. I knew him as a kid because his children are my first cousins once removed. The kids are near my own age actually. Nice folks, lived in New Haven, CT where their dad (the focus of this tread) was a major player at Yale Univ.

And if the Yale connection with Mr. "X" doesn't put him in close proximity to Skull & Bones then his membership to the Trilateral Commission, Council On Foreign Relations and Brookings institute almost certainly do. The guy's political and legal career were made. He's never failed to get significant influence in the Federal Reserve, World Bank and even actively worked at slowing down efforts to stop Global Warming.

I recollect doing a library search on the guy back in 1970. He made "Who's Who" even way back when. Me? I was about fourteen years old at the time. Just bored and swamping through the school library for the heck of it.

So maybe about 35 years ago we take a trip to Mr. X's house in CT. A visit with our relatives. My dad and he talked politics. Being quite a scholar himself, pop would have made interesting discussion with Mr. X. One of the few family members X would take seriously.

Eggheads tend to be cocky SOB's. You can't usually give them the time of day let alone catch their ear. Not on anything. You must have credentials to gain their attention. Their egos being so huge as to not allow anyone outside of their own thoughts in. Yet my father was easily a scholastic peer of X and half a generation older. So dad was at least included in the discussion. Family connection at any rate. Would have been rude to let dad sit things out.

Now Mr. X actually has the audacity to then say in front of my father; "I am very glad that the elite classes are running the world".

To which my dad, a good Liberal Democrat nearly steamed madder than hell. However it wouldn't have been appropriate for him to "lose it" at a family gathering. So instead father replies:

"Well I'll be satisfied with the elite running the world. Just so long as I'm considered to be among the elite myself".

No comment from Mr. X.

These people rule the planet folks. Or at least act like they do. It's a shadow governing body that carries out smears and assassinations (both character and real) of opponents. They will throw a few carrots your way if they like you. However you must come from power or be among the best and the brightest at what you do.

To his credit Mr. X is among the "brightest". But so is Condi Rice and who gives a shit about her?






Post Script: When my mom worked for the IRS she handled his tax return for the government. Boy was she pissed that he was making so much money!. I mean she really wasn't allowed to discuss any accounts that came out of the regional IRS office. However it's only natural that one would share general information with the family. Mom was really really upset the guy had such a vast fortune...

Mom even handled Ted Kennedy's return one year. I won't say which year. Not sure even myself.

We had the IRS sticker on the car so I got to drive in the restricted facility soon after receiving my license. Mom worked the swing shift and needed a ride home late at night. So I used to enjoy letting the family dog take a poop on the IRS's lawn. gave me a real kick.

Considered it a form of civic pride and minor civil disobedience.

[Hydra]

1. I also have a relative on the "inside"

blood relative, in my case. They really do think quite a lot of themselves, don't they?

It's too bad- he wanted me to serve him without question for a chance on the inside. I knew better, though. Slaves are never considered the equal of "the master," no matter how useful he/she is.

[WileEcoyote]

2. Wise choice

Your conscience would have killed you. If they didn't first.

Tell you this much though: Your kids would have been set for life.

I'm thinking John Kerry may have tried to distance himself from the group but they still used him anyway. His associates from Skull & Bones may have duped him into taking the fall in '04 in order to create the appearance of "Democracy".